UBTECH’s Walker S1 humanoid robot stood in the company’s Shenzhen headquarters on 13 October, narrating the scene around it in real time, while a Walker S2 unit placed material bins into marked positions with practiced precision. The demonstration, staged for a provincial industry delegation, is the public face of a company now pitching itself as … Read more
Shenzhen-based humanoid-robot maker UBTECH has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Xiamen C&D Co., the Chinese supply-chain and real estate conglomerate. The two partners will set up a joint venture to operate the Fujian headquarters of UBTECH Ecosystem Technology Centre. UBTECH industrial humanoid robots handle material-handling tasks on a production line (Source: Gasgoo) Under the … Read more
On 20 September, Qiyuan Robotics, the consumer embodied-intelligence brand under Shanghai Wison New Materials, held a launch event in Shanghai and began selling two personal robots, the Qiyuan Q1 and T1. The company also laid out its brand, technology, product and ecosystem strategy. Shenzhen’s Qiyuan Ships Its First Consumer Robots, Priced at (Source: Source) Both … Read more
MileBot Robotics, a Shenzhen exoskeleton robot provider, said it has closed a new strategic round near 100 million yuan from state backed CSC Financial. The funds accelerate product iteration and the rollout of brain computer interface and other frontier tech, covering the last mile from hospital to community to home in care scenarios. Earlier backers … Read more
From pilot to scaled landing Shenzhen Bojiang Robotics recently signed a strategic cooperation agreement with a leading Hong Kong smart-construction enterprise, marking its move from “pilot application” to “scaled landing” in the Hong Kong and Macau market. Under the deal, the Hong Kong firm will buy construction robots, smart equipment and related technical services from … Read more
On 20 September, at the 16th quarterly roundtable for small and medium enterprises convened by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and chaired by Minister Li Lecheng, Guo YanDong, founder and chief executive of Shenzhen embodied-intelligence company Zhifang, was among eight invited founders from fields including artificial intelligence, commercial space and quantum technology. … Read more
On 22 September, Shenzhen Fanbote Robotics closed an angel round in the tens of millions of RMB. Incubated at the Yale Innovation Center and based in Shenzhen’s Nanshan district, the startup is walking away from the crowded general-purpose humanoid race to bet everything on mental-health coaching robots for students. Why a hard path China carries … Read more
A state-backed round, four times over According to 36Kr, Shenzhen MaiBot Robotics Technology, known as MaiBot, recently completed a new strategic financing round of nearly RMB 100 million, with CSC Financial, a state-backed institution, as the investor. After the round, MaiBot accelerates product iteration and the commercial rollout of frontier directions such as brain-computer interfaces, … Read more
The embodied-intelligence sector has no shortage of robots that can deliver one flawless demo. What it lacks is robots that repeat a task ten thousand times in a real setting and still perform reliably. PaXini says it has just closed a RMB 1 billion strategic round, lifting cumulative funding to nearly RMB 4 billion. The … Read more
Shenzhen Maibu Robot Technology has closed a new strategic financing round worth nearly 100 million yuan, led by the state-owned CITIC Construction Investment. The deal accelerates product iteration and the rollout of frontier work such as brain-computer interfaces, while extending the company’s reach across the last mile of care, from hospital and community to home. … Read more